Improvement in ticket-registers



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE E. soLOMoN, JE., AND JosErH SOLOMON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN TICKET-REGISTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 57,398, dated August 21, 1866.

To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that we, GEORGE R. SOLOMON, J r., and J OsEPH SOLOMON, ofthe city, county, and State of N ew York, have invented a new and Improved Ticket- Register; and We do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact-description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specication. in which- Figure l is a side view of our invention; and Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of the same, taken in the line :c Fig. l.

Similar letters of reference in the different gnres indicate corresponding parts.

This invent-ion relates -to a new and useful ticket box or register for conductors on railway-cars and for ticket-Sellin g use generally; and it consists in a box in which the tickets in a continuous strip are wound upon a central drum or shaft, and the box then locked by the superintendent or other authorized person, so that the ticket-strips cannot be tampered with or changed, and the conductor or ticket-seller cannot have access to the box, but is able to produce tickets therefrom, as required, by suit- `able mechanism in connection with the box7 as hereinafter explained.

A in the accompanying drawings is a circular ticket-box, having a cover, B, hinged to the body by a hinge, c, and provided with a lock, D. j' is a central shaft, which is turned by a knob, F, Fig. l, for Winding thereon the continuous strip of tickets la la, Fig. 2. c is a slit in the side of the box A, through which the tickets are drawn from the box 5 and G G are small feeding or conveying rollers, which have an elastic coating, It, of rubber or other elastic material, and these rollers are geared together by the gears t t', Fig. 2, and have also a springpawl, j, to prevent any backward movement of the said rollers G G. The ofce of the rollers G G is to pass out the ticket-strip k as required, and they are operated by a knob, m,

Fig. 1. The spring-pawl j prevents any backward movement of the conveying-rollers G G.

The operation of the invention is as follows: The roll of tickets is Wound or placed in the shaft f, and the box is then turned over to the ticket-dispenser or conductor, and, as tickets are wanted, the conductor draws them from the box by means of the knob m and conveying-rollers G G, which pass the tickets out through the slit c, and they are torn off one by one, as desired.

The tickets, constituting the contin nous strip or roll lr, are each numbered, so that when the box is opened the remaining portion of the ticket-strip shows the number of tickets that have been given out or drawn from the box, and consequently the amount of funds or number of fares which the ticketseller has to account for, and, as the ticket-seller is obliged to give every passenger a ticket, this device acts as a faithful chronicler of the number of passen gers conveyed and serves as a cheek or restraint upon dishonest employs.

By this means a dishonest ticket-seller can defraud his employers only with` the consent and knowledge of a second person, at least, as the passenger is required to always take a check or ticket when the fare is paid, and it will be an easy matter for company detectives to see that this duty is carried out by the ticket-seller.

Having thus described our invention, what We claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The ticket-box A B, with a slit, c, and elastic delivering-rollers G G, spring-pawlj, and rollholding shaft f, all arranged.4 and operating substantially in the manner and for the purpose described.

GEO. R. SOLOMON, JR. JOSEPH SOLOMON.

Witnesses: l

WM. F. MONAMARA, ALEX. F. ROBERTS. 

